5 Psychological Experiments That Prove Humanity is Doomed

[darxus]

http://www.cracked.com/article_16239_5-psychological-experiments-that-prove-humanity-doomed.html

When I first read this I found it fascinating but not enough to post. But I keep thinking about it enough that I felt I needed to dig it up and at least put it here so I could find it more easily.

Humans....

"As it turns out, it's usually fear of repercussion that keeps us from torturing our fellow human beings. Give us absolute power over somebody and a blank check from our superiors, and Abu Ghraib-esque naked pyramids are sure to follow."

Comments

[mrf-arch.livejournal.com]

I've known about the Milgram and Zimbardo experiments for a while. (The Stanford Prison experiment is a part of why getting approvals for human subjects trials is much harder, these days.)

I wonder if it'd be possible to get less depressing results out of some of those experiments if they weren't conducted using a test field of all Americans. Though I suppose in some cases, the results would probably be even worse...

[center.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... they left out the blue eye/brown eye experiment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott